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The regulations now in force with reference to this subject are 

 as follows : 



The men permanently employed in the garden are exclusively 

 received on the recommendation of Fellows of the Society. 



The only exception to this regulation is in favour of foreigners, 

 of whom no more than two may be employed at the same time. 



The names and addresses of the candidates for admission are 

 entered in a book, in the order in which their recommendations 

 are received. 



Notice is then transmitted to the candidate of the points upon 

 which he will have to give satisfactory evidence before he can be 

 received into the garden, which are as follow : — 



(1) That he has been employed for at least three years in 

 some good garden. 



(2) That he can write and spell respectably. 



(3) That he is sufficiently acquainted with arithmetic to be 

 able to keep accounts. 



(4) That he is able to measure land and make simple ground 

 plans. 



In case of a permanent vacancy in any one of the departments, 

 that vacancy is filled up by the first on the list of candidates for 

 admission, who is received upon complying with the above regula- 

 tions ; but, in the case of a vacancy being temporary only, then it 

 is filled up by an extra man, engaged by the under gardener, in 

 whose department the vacancy occurs. 



The men are successively employed in the three several depart- 

 ments, the transfer from one department to another taking place 

 under the following regulations : — 



(1) There are two days in each year on which the men are 

 transferred, and no transfers are allowed to take place on other 

 days, such transfer days being February 1 and August 1 . 



(2) On each transfer day a number of men, not fewer than 



